Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shuts down critics who want her to go back to bartending

New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has made no secret of her past work as a bartender - in fact, it's something she's proud of.

That hasn't stopped her critics from taking her past job as a source of ridicule and criticism, and she's firmly done with it.

Taking to Twitter, she let people know:

I find it revealing when people mock where I came from, & say they're going to 'send me back to waitressing,' as if that is bad or shameful. It's as though they think being a member of Congress makes you intrinsically 'better' than a waitress. 

But our job is to serve, not rule.

People who work in the service industry were grateful for Ocasio-Cortez' words

Others loved her definition of what it means to be working for the government

One person suggested that working a serving job is character-building and should be mandatory

This isn't the first time she's addressed people who used her background to try to shame her. Earlier this year Ocasio-Cortez criticised Howard Schultz after he blamed her wanting to tax the rich as the reason he decided to run as an independent.

She clapped back with a dig at Donald Trump.

Why don't people ever tell billionaires who want to run for president that they need to 'work their way up' or that 'maybe they should start with city council first'?

In a now-deleted tweet, a researcher asked why nobody told "the bartender that maybe she should have started with the city council first?"

Ocasio-Cortez had the best response.

This bartender' has served in a Senate casework office, organised & educated 1000s of young people, earned relevant degrees w/honors, worked on field campaigns, and the only reason I wasn't told to run for city council was because I was consistently told not to run at all.

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